Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-03
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REViVALIST SMALL breaches
TWO POINTED SERMONS

the Bible.
Rev. Sam w. Small, the reformed Al
tanta editor, preached his first sermon to
Savannah audience Yesterday morning
la Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
90 Telfair Place.
The eyangeiists reputation attracted a
congregation which completely filled the
ssanctuary. Although the wood and
cseotype cuts of him which have deco
oSsd nearly every newspaper from Sa-
vannah to San Francisco did not fatter
him, the most of them bore a sufficient re-
semblance to identity him by. He is
spare, slightly above average height.
wears heavy moustache, Eyeglasses, q
clerical appearance, and just faint sus-
picion OF bangs. He speaks distinctly, in
rather hard tone, more clear than fl XII
blr. His sermon was preceded Dy prayer
and the usual musical preludes.
Rev. I. 7. Christian, pastor Of the
church, introduced Mr.. Small. His text
vas Ephesians II. 10 and 10. "But now IN
esist Jesus, We who sometime were far
Mr,s made nigh by the blood OF Christ.
therefore, We are no more strange
.h,creigners, but fellow citizens win
pts and OF the household of God"
caid,dyLs AT ENMITY WITH GOD.
Trustees vice reading the passages be
Npv ~"lt does not require that per-
So, should be very wise or a profound
SOlo ian to be impressed with one very
xpminent fact in human history. 1t Is
VS.; when we look over tn mass ofour
Hlow citizens we are impressed with this
Important fact, thnt there are thousands,
hundreds of thousands, yea. millions OF
souls to-day at enmity with God. Some
Rec direct fragrant acls of their
UNI, Others, and the greater num-
LE0re in state Of passive,
Sales, enmity. Others still. are
THgin a state of alienshp or tor.
L. pcbip. Collectively there are millions
Drswho have the light but are practi-
Ara state of enmity against God.
.,raeat question of the pulpit 10 to dis
Iwhy these millions for whom Christ
'conilnue in this active or passive
~--ty, knowing the fact and all the fear
fespEsipluties and the consequences
TeSuin SdeSs 49,, -
. The pulpH OF today is engaged in
wrestling with this problem OF the con.
tlnusnce OF so many in open rebellion to
the Lord. 1t is not because men are open
ly infdels; not that they deny the exist
ence of God. Go you where you will
around this world OF ours, aud you will
md people everywhere who have some
idea, how crude so ever il may be, OF TIE
existence of supreme being. That idea
seems to be a part OF their inherent con.
seriousness. II is not theoretical infid4lity
Which Is keeping the millions from God.
THE VELVET OF GODS PROVIDENCE.
= Ian cannot look out upon nature with
tNeing all the world carpeted with the
hot of Gods providence. The noun
piled up in vast ranges, the majes-
iers bearing upon their bosoms the
We, OF all nations, the broad waving
iolnahs, the forests and PLAINS all pro-
y q the fact that there was a plan, q
superior consciousness at work In the
creation and arrangement. Man cannot
look at himself without being impressed
with the same fact. To-day after 5000
years OF self study and examination he
9mains an enigma TO himself.
Man cannot probe himself scientif-
cally. mentally, morally, spiritually.
When he looks at himself be cannot but
cay How wonderfully made am I?' He
must come to the conclusion that there Is
superior consciousness above him. II,
then, 1t is not infdelity wAich accounts for
mans hostility to God, there is lett the
other alternative that man is denying the
immortality of his soal. But take the
lowest heather in Interior Africa and
you and that, although he never heard III
Christ or the cross, he has conscious
knowledge that the essence of this being
is eternal life, aud that there is a some
thing That lives after the body perishes.
THE DESTINY OF THE SOUL.
''The greatest cause OF this foreign state
ts in the eudeavor OF rational creatures to
settle this question of the ultimathule the
destiny of the soul, by human reasoning
and without Gods aid. You find it illus.
trsted in the old idea OF the anclents IN
terwoven in the myth that just beyond
the shores OF this life lay q cluster OF beau
Iiful islands to which the shallOps of our
being were waited after death. Thai
fancy was long ago exploded. The world
has been cIrcumnaVIgated thousands OF
times, but a glimpse OF the lost Atlantis
has never gladdened sailors hearts.
'Some philosophers have dreamed OF an
Ethiopia, where all is just, rnerciiul and
true, and no. hing false. But we know thai
there is no Ethiopia to be found on earth
In more modern times men come again to
new speculations. | would not wipe out
line OF all that Darwin has done for sc
ence. 1t is not making Roadway against
faith. Take an in eligent audience like
this and present Darwin's speculations
and there is scarce one VINO will not turn
away IN disgust at the suggestion that
he is the evolved product Of some animal
protoplasm once wriggling in mud pud-
die.
NOT AN EVoLUTIoNIsT.
"You cannot get an audience to climb the
Alpine heights OF philosophio speculation
with Darwin, Huxley. Spencer and ryn
dali. " nat is TO be the destiny OF the
soul? There is pc Mt in every man,
Lie when that question meets him. There
is but one alternative.
The destiny OF the soul is eternal life or
eternal death. Where shall my soul nd
its Judgment is the question. There is
something suggestive IN the expression
eternal death that 1t must make every
man think OF his destiny.
81 remember that | have mother in
heaven " no nursnd me In infancy, led me
by the hand in childhood, instlled into
my youthful mind the precepGs OF her
faith. Can | think OF her devotion and
say that l will never look ito her face
again or beg her pardon for all the sorrow
| caused her on earth? would not say
so tnis day II this globe was solid gold
and mine for the saying. Can | bid
eternal farewell to that wife
who bore with my reckless
wicked waysi Can l look at my four
little children who suffered 80 much from
me In my DAYS OF dissipation when used
10 stagger home breathing the very fumes
of hell, and VINO were the first to give me
words OF encouragement when the change
came, can | look upon them and say
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